The movement is growing in China despite obstructions by a sensitive state, indifferent public and misogynist elites.


Maria Repnikova (PhD) is a scholar of political communication in non-democratic regimes, with a special focus on China and Russia. She is currently an... Assistant Professor in Global Communication and a Director of the Center for Global Information Studies at Georgia State University.
The movement is growing in China despite obstructions by a sensitive state, indifferent public and misogynist elites.

Xi Jinping is not following in Vladimir Putin’s footsteps. He’s carving his own path.

The Olympic mega-project aims to promote an image of Russia’s recovered international prestige and national unity.
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Khodorkovsky’s complex past may make it difficult for him to pursue a political role.
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